“Our mission is to provide the best honey bee winterization system ever made”
- Peggy DeSanto
Bee the Change, LLC, is a Minnesota based company.
Our products are:
- Data Driven
- Founded in Science
-Designed for the Condensing Hive
The Hive Hugger® design is based on research done by Etienne Tardif, Tom Seeley, Derek Mitchell, Bill Hesbach, Randy Oliver and many others.
Field-tested in Extreme Climates to Ensure Optimal Overwintering Performance
The Hive Hugger® hives are the blue and purple lines. The other insulation systems are the other colored lines. The pink dashed line is outside temperature.
Compared to other common overwintering systems, the Hive Hugger® hives demonstrated:
Benefits to Bees & Beekeepers
Over 90% winter survival
Bees consumed ~50% less honey
Colonies came through winter stronger
Queens started laying earlier
Hives ran 20–35º degrees warmer
Monetary savings for the beekeeper by reduced honey consumption and not needing to replace colonies in the spring
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
— John Muir